12Child disability allowance

(3)Every handicapped child's allowance that was payable immediately before 1 September 1998 becomes, on that date, a child disability allowance under section 39A of the principal Act (as amended by this section).

38Effect of participation in approved activities

(2)Where, before 1 October 1998, a person commenced participation in a community task force project or a training programme approved by the Director-General (under section 60KA of the principal Act as it was before its substitution by this section), that project or programme is an activity for the purposes of section 60KA (as substituted by this section) after that date.

39Effect of sections 60H to 60J and section 60N on entitlement to supplementary benefits and on spouses

51Calculation of stand down

52Ending of benefits

This section inserted Part 2 (comprising ss 87 to 100) of the principal Act.

54Transfer of existing beneficiaries to community wage

(1)This section applies to persons receiving any of the following benefits immediately before the commencement of this section:

(a)An unemployment benefit (which includes the benefit known as the 55+ benefit):

(b)A young job seeker's allowance:

(c)A training benefit:

(d)A sickness benefit:

(e)The benefit known as the emergency sickness benefit, which benefit is an emergency benefit on the grounds of sickness, injury, or disability:

(f)The benefit known as the emergency unemployment benefit, which benefit is an emergency benefit where the chief executive has imposed work testing as a condition of the benefit, and the benefit is—

(i)Granted instead of, or in substitution for, an unemployment benefit; or

(ii)Analogous to an unemployment benefit.

(2)If, immediately before the date of commencement of this section, a person was fulfilling the conditions of entitlement to the benefit, then on that date—

(a)The benefit becomes a community wage as if it had been granted under section 89 of the principal Act; and

(b)The person becomes a community wage earner; and

(c)If the benefit was paid at a married rate, then the community wage is payable as if the person and his or her work-tested spouse had each signed a job seeker contract.

(3)A person who becomes a community wage earner under this section, and his or her work-tested spouse, must enter into a job seeker contract if required to do so by the chief executive, and section 95(3) of the principal Act applies to a failure to comply with the requirement. This subsection is subject to section 96(3).

Items relating to sections 226A and 238b Education Act 1989 and section 78(1) to (3) Accident Rehabilitation Compensation and Insurance Act 1992 were repealed, as from 1 October 1998, by section 11 Employment Services and Income Support (Integrated Administration) Act 1998 (1998 No 96).

Schedule 1 was to have been amended, as from 1 July 1999, by section 415(1) Accident Insurance Act 1998 (1998 No 114) by omitting so much as relates to the Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Act 1992. This was apparently in error because those items had already been repealed by section 11 Employment Service and Income Support (Integrated Administration) Act 1998 (1998 No 96).

The item relating to the Income Tax Act 1994 was repealed, as from 1 April 2005, by section YA 2 Income Tax Act 2004 (2004 No 35).

Schedule 1 was amended, as from 12 October 2001, by section 77 New Zealand Superannuation Act 2001 (2001 No 84) by omitting so much as relates to the Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Act 1990.

BRegulations amended

Regulation

Amendment

The Student Allowances Regulations 1991 (SR 1991/295)

By omitting from regulation 19, and also from regulation 20(2), the words “a sickness benefit, an invalid's benefit, an unemployment benefit, or a training benefit under Part I of”, and substituting in each case the words “a community wage or an invalid's benefit under”.

By repealing paragraphs (d), (e), (f), and (g) of the definition of the term income tested benefit in regulation 2, and substituting the following paragraph:

“(d)A community wage under the Social Security Act 1964; or”.

By omitting from paragraph (i) of that definition the words “an unemployment benefit or sickness benefit”, and substituting the words “a community wage”.

The Social Security (Exemptions from Mandatory Interviews and Work Tests) Regulations 1996 (SR 1996/260)

By omitting from regulation 3(3)(c), and also from regulation 4(2)(c), the words “a sickness benefit”, and substituting in each case the words “a community wage on the grounds of sickness, injury, or disability”.

Schedule 3Rates of widows' benefits

Income Test 5 if the beneficiary is a work-tested beneficiary whose youngest dependent child is aged 14 years or more, or

(b)

Income Test 1 in any other case.

(b)

To a beneficiary with 2 or more dependent children

$230.24 a week, subject to—

(a)

Income Test 5 if the beneficiary is a work-tested beneficiary whose youngest dependent child is aged 14 years or more; or

(b)

Income Test 1 in any other case.

2.

To a beneficiary without any dependent children

$153.47 a week, subject to—

(a)

Income Test 5 if the beneficiary is a work-tested beneficiary; or

(b)

Income Test 1 in any other case.

3.

For the purpose of clause 1, the chief executive may, in his or her discretion, disregard up to $20 a week of the beneficiary's personal earnings used to meet the cost of child care for the beneficiary's dependent child or children.

Schedule 16Rates of domestic purposes benefits

Sections 27B, 27C, and 27H

1.

(a)

To a beneficiary with 1 dependent child

$211.04 a week, subject to—

(a)

Income Test 5 if the beneficiary is a work-tested beneficiary whose youngest dependent child is aged 14 years or more; or

(b)

Income Test 1 in any other case

(b)

To a beneficiary with 2 or more dependent children

$230.24 a week, subject to—

(a)

Income Test 5 if the beneficiary is a work-tested beneficiary whose youngest dependent child is aged 14 years or more; or

(b)

Income Test 1 in any other case.

2.

To a beneficiary without any dependent children

$153.47 a week, subject to—

(a)

Income Test 5 if the beneficiary is a work-tested beneficiary; or

(b)

Income Test 1 in any other case.

3.

For the purpose of clause 1, the chief executive may, in his or her discretion, disregard up to $20 a week of the beneficiary's personal earnings used to meet the cost of child care for the beneficiary's dependent child or children.